Beverly Johnson

Tuesday, October 7, 1986
There was a party for Beverly Johnson at Mr. Chow’s. Every person in the world was there. Beverly Johnson asked me to go sit at Eddie Murphy’s table but I just couldn’t. There was just one chair and I wouldn’t have known what to talk about. I’d have to be macho. It’s funny how you haven’t heard his name in a year, isn’t it? I think people want to see lots of cheap quickie B movies. The big stars do these few big expensive movies, and they’re away for a whole year. He’s got the new movie coming out, Golden Child. Grace Jones arrived late and made an entrance. Peter Beard was there and looks really good. And his new girlfriend is nothing like all his other girlfriends, she’s from Afghanistan. And I heard that Robert Mapplethorpe and Sam Wagstaff are both in the hospital. Paige dropped me (newspapers $6).
Excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries © The Andy Warhol Foundation. Used with permission.